The Yangzhou army started to move again. The sky was not bright yet. From the Shiyang navy camp, hundreds of warships started to leave Shiyang and head towards the South County of Jingzhou. The richest state in the world was Jingzhou. Liu Biao entered Jingzhou and put the Cao, Huang, Cai, and Laong nobles in important positions. Therefore, other than the Wang family and the Deng family in Nanyang, Jingzhou did not suffer any losses. Liu Biao got a complete Jingzhou. After the war in the Central Plains, Yuan Shu, Cao Cao, and the Yellow Turbans were all fighting in the Central Plains. Countless people were displaced. In order to survive, they could only fight to escape. Jingzhou was the best place for these people to escape.
With the Yangtze River as a natural moat, Jingzhou was rich in farmland. It could be said that it was a land of fish and rice. Gradually, Jingzhou had a population of millions. This did not include Yuzhou. The nobles in Yangzhou were also fleeing. They came to Jingzhou and brought rich assets to Jingzhou. Where there were many people, business would naturally flourish. Jingzhou had been peaceful for a long time. Merchants from Jingzhou came and went.
Cao Cao, Yuan Shu, and even Hebei's Yuan Shao did business with Jingzhou. In this way, Jingzhou made a lot of money from the war.
Therefore, it was not an exaggeration to say that Jingzhou was the richest state in the world.
What was the richest place in Jingzhou? That was Xiangyang. Xiangyang was the political center of Jingzhou. It slowly became the economic and cultural center. The Lumen Academy, the governor's mansion, and the merchants that came and went did business in Xiangyang.
Xiangyang's luxury indirectly led to the prosperity of another place. That was Jiangling.
Although Jiangling's waterways were not as smooth as Xiangyang's, it had something that Xiangyang could not compare to. Jiangling not only had the Yangtze River as a barrier, but it also had the hundreds of miles of swamps in Huarong Path as its backing.
With such a geographical advantage, this place was the best defensive route. In times of peace, one must be vigilant against danger. No matter which feudal lord, he would always leave a way out for himself. Tao Qian's place of governance was Peng City, but when Cao Cao attacked Peng City, he was able to resist Cao Cao in Xiapi, because Xiapi was his escape route. Yuan Shu's original place of governance was Runan, but later he moved to Shouchun. Hebei's Gongsun Zan and Beiping were also his escape routes.
Jiangling was Liu Biao's escape route. Liu Biao stored a large amount of military supplies in Jiangling. This was also convenient. If Xiangyang could not be defended, Liu Biao could retreat to Jiangling.
Therefore, if he wanted to get Jingzhou, he needed to get Xiangyang and Jiangling. Xiangyang was too far away, but Jiangling was right in front of him. However, with Huarong Dao's obstruction, the Yangzhou navy could not do anything to him. Now that there was such a person in front of Lu Xun and told him that there was a way to get through Huarong Dao, Lu Xun could not help but be excited.
The tens of thousands of troops moved quickly. They disembarked from the mouth of Hanyang to the territory of Jingzhou's Nanjun. After moving for half a day, the army finally arrived at the endless mouth of Huarong Dao. It was all swamps. When one breathed in, one would smell the rotten smell. It was nauseating. This was a natural barrier. If one knew how to get through Huarong Dao, it would be fine. If one did not know how to get through Huarong Dao, then one would be trapped in the endless swamps.
"General, is this person reliable?" Huo Jun said to Lu Xun at the side. Looking at Huarong Dao in front of him, Huo Jun had a kind of fear. This was because he sent hundreds of guards to spy a few days ago, but in the end, only a dozen people returned. The others were all swallowed by the swamps. Even their corpses could not be found. It was because he had personal experience with Huarong Dao that Huo Jun was even more worried about this unfamiliar white-clothed scholar.
This person came to Shiyang City mysteriously a few days ago to find Lu Xun. The first thing he said was that he had a way to get through Huarong Dao. As for how to say it, he did not mention a word. He just said that they would know when they got there.
Huo Jun originally wanted to take this person down and torture him before questioning him. However, he was stopped by Lu Xun. Not only did Lu Xun believe this person, but he also brought the army.
Lu Xun did not reply to Huo Jun. Instead, he turned his head. "Sir, how should we proceed now?" Lu Xun asked the white-clothed scholar at the side.
"There are two ways to choose!" The white-clothed scholar said calmly.
"Two?"
"Yes, two!" The white-clothed scholar nodded. "One is to cut grass and pave the ground. Although Huarong Dao is full of swamps, as long as you pave the ground with grass, you can naturally pass through!" The most frightening thing about the swamps was that the ground was soft and easy to sink into. If the swamps were paved with grass, it could naturally allow the army to pass through.
This was a solution, but Lu Xun frowned. It was easy to say, but the workload was huge. The entire Huarong Road was hundreds of miles long. If this continued, it would take at least a year to reach Jiangling. Moreover, it had to be guaranteed that there was no heavy rain season. Lu Xun frowned. Huarong Road was very simple, but it had to be done. The entire Huarong Road was hundreds of miles long.
Not only did Lu Xun not have enough time, the consumption of these provisions was also a problem.
Therefore, Lu Xun rejected this method without thinking. "What's the second way?" Lu Xun continued to ask.
"You really don't want to consider the first way? Although the first way is complicated, as long as you bring tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of farmers, you can definitely fill Huarong Dao within a few months!" The white-clothed scholar asked again.
"Nope!" Lu Xun shook his head. It was easy to say that there were hundreds of thousands of farmers, but it was very troublesome to do it. Moreover, winter was going to be over. When it was spring, it would be the spring plowing season. If he brought hundreds of thousands of farmers out, the fields would be abandoned.
"Then, the second way! The second way is a small path. I said in advance that it is a narrow escape! "The white-clothed scholar continued to say to Lu Xun.
"Narrow escape?"
"Yes! Once you enter the swamps of Huarong Dao, you may fall into the swamps and die. When you reach the swamps, even if you don't fall into the mud, if you inhale too much poisonous gas, you will die. Without the poisonous gas, there are some ferocious beasts in the swamps that will also kill you. At night, the poisonous insects and snakes in the swamps will kill you silently. "The white-clothed scholar said one by one for Lu Xun to hear.
Lu Xun frowned as he listened. He knew that Huarong Dao was dangerous, but he didn't expect it to be so dangerous.
Swamps, poisonous gas, poisonous insects, ferocious beasts, all of these weren't things that humans could fight against. It was rare for Huo Jun on the side to not speak because he had encountered these things before.
"These aren't a problem! As long as you can point out the correct path, it will be fine! " If Lu Xun wanted to take down Jiangling, he had to go through Huarong Dao. Originally, he could attack from the waterway. However, Liu Biao's army in Jing Province had some capable people. They actually sunk the warships on the waterway of the Yangtze River. This blocked the Yangzhou Navy's warships from entering, making it difficult for the Yangzhou Navy to attack Jiangling from the waterway. "How can there be no deaths in a war? As long as you can pass through it, it will be fine!"
The white-clothed scholar nodded. "The last and most important death is to pass through this small path. Because the path is small, you can only bring 2,000 people through!"
"2,000 people? What a joke! " Huo Jun on the side finally spoke. If the swamps, poisonous gas, and poisonous insects could be dealt with, then Huo Jun wasn't satisfied with 2,000 people.
This was because they weren't going to Huarong Dao to play, they were going to war to capture a city. Two thousand people passing through Huarong Dao would result in many casualties. It would be good if there were 1,000 people left when they reached Jiangling. It was simply a joke to rely on 1,000 people to attack Jiangling City. Even if they took down Jiangling City, they still had to defend it. How could they fight this war? It was just sending themselves to death.
"It's up to you whether you want to go or not!" The white-clothed scholar on the side said without a care.
"General, I think this person isn't honest and isn't telling the truth. Let's take him down and torture him!" Huo Jun was dissatisfied with the white-clothed scholar. He already had doubts about the white-clothed scholar's identity. Their Yangzhou Army had just entered a suspicious area that they couldn't pass through Huarong Dao, and the white-clothed scholar appeared here. This appearance was too coincidental. What if it was a trap?
"If you believe me, then so be it. If you don't, then I'll take my leave!" The white-clothed scholar was also angry. He cupped his fist and said to Huo Jun and Lu Xun. He was about to shake his head and leave, but his heart was very bitter. How long would it take for him to take revenge?
"Want to leave? This is not a place where you can come and go as you please! Men, take him down! "Huo Jun was about to order his men to take down the white-clothed scholar.
"What do you want to do!" The white-clothed scholar put on a vigilant look.
"What do we want to do! Tell me, who sent you here! " Huo Jun said with a perverted look. He was about to take down the white-clothed scholar and torture him before saying anything else.
"Stop!" Lu Xun said.
"General?" Huo Jun looked at Lu Xun doubtfully. This white-clothed scholar was too strange and very suspicious.
"Let go of this lady," Lu Xun said to Huo Jun.
"But General." Huo Jun was about to refute, but suddenly he was stunned, "Lady?"
"Hehe, lady, are you still going to pretend?" Lu Xun came in front of the white-clothed scholar and said to him with a smile.
The white-clothed scholar neither admitted nor denied, but only said, "How did you know?"
"Hehe, lady, before you pretend to be a man, you should first change your Adam's apple!" Lu Xun said to the white-clothed scholar, no, the white-clothed woman now.
"So it's the Adam's apple!" The white-clothed scholar then realized that Lu Xun probably already knew that he was not a man.
"Hehe." Lu Xun laughed. When the white-clothed scholar first came in front of Lu Xun, Lu Xun was puzzled because the white-clothed scholar looked too delicate and pretty. Lu Xun had seen beautiful people before. For example, Mr. Zhou of Jiangdong was a handsome man, and so was Lu Xun. If Mr. Zhou of Jiangdong were to wear women's clothes, he would not be much worse than some beautiful women. Even so, Lu Xun did not find out. The reason Lu Xun found out was that when the white-clothed scholar spoke, his Adam's apple did not move at all. In other words, he did not have an Adam's apple.
Because of this, Lu Xun began to pay more attention to this white-robed scholar. After Lu Xun and the white-robed scholar talked, the white-robed scholar revealed even more. In the end, Lu Xun was able to confirm that this white-robed scholar was a woman because he admitted it himself.
Before this, Lu Xun was only suspicious. There were all kinds of strange things in the world, and there were also men without Adam's apple.
Lu Xun wanted to know what this woman wanted.
When the white-clothed woman saw that her family had been exposed, she decided not to hide anymore. She took off the bun on her head and let her long hair down. Her handsome face and elegant long hair were mesmerizing.
"So it's a woman!" Huo Jun could not help but curl his lips. Women should be embroidering at home. Why would they come out to join in the fun? Huo Jun even disdained the female medical officer in the army.
"Miss, what do you want?" Lu Xun put away his smile. "There is no joking in the army. Miss, if you don't give me an explanation, I can't just let you go!" Lu Xun pulled the army out. If he just went back like this, it would be difficult to explain to the army. If Lu Xun found out that this woman had ulterior motives, then Lu Xun might ruthlessly destroy her.
"Can you give me what I want?" The woman said with a cold face.
"If you don't say, how do you know we can't give you what you want?" Lu Xun believed that this woman would not deceive them to come to Huarong Dao for no reason. This was not good for her. If Lu Xun did not stop her, then this woman would have been taken back by Huo Jun for interrogation. In the end, it would be hard to tell if she was dead or alive. She might even be humiliated. Even so, this woman still came. This showed that this woman wanted something similar to their Yangzhou army.
"I want Dong Zhi's head. Can you give it to me?" The woman said to Lu Xun without giving him any face.
"Dong Zhi's head?" Lu Xun was stunned. Who is this Dong Zhi?
"You mean Jiangling Prefecture Chief Dong Zhi?" Huo Jun on the side helped Lu Xun to clear his doubts. No matter what, Huo Jun was once a member of the Jingzhou Navy, so he still remembered some officials. This Dong Zhi was Jiangling Prefecture Chief. Huo Jun once received military provisions from Jiangling.
"Why do you want to kill Jiangling Prefecture Chief?" Lu Xun asked doubtfully.
"This is none of your business!" The woman retorted, "Let me ask you, do you want Jiangling City or not? If you want Jiangling City, then you have to listen to me. If you don't want it, then we can't work together. Let's part ways here!"
She wanted to kill Jiangling Prefecture Chief Dong Zhi! The woman's identity was revealed. She was Wu Mi, one of the two siblings of the Wu Family. After Wu Mi buried her family, she left Jiangling and took a boat along the Yangtze River. She did not go directly to the Huang Family for help. Instead, she went to the Yangzhou Navy's Shiyang Camp. Because the people who killed her family were Jiangling Prefecture Chief Dong Zhi and Jingzhou Governor Liu Biao's second son, Liu Pan, she knew that even if she went to Changsha, she would not be able to do anything to Dong Zhi.
After all, Huang Zu would not attack Jiangling. Even if Huang Zu wanted to seek justice for the Wu Family, it would take a long time.
The most direct and convenient way was to go to the Yangzhou Navy.
"Our General is asking you a question. Why do you not know what is good for you?"
"Zhong Miao, you can leave!" Lu Xun waved his hand. He did not want Huo Jun to have a conflict with the woman in white. Although Lu Xun did not know why this white-clothed woman wanted to kill Jiangling Governor Dong Zhi, he could tell that the hatred on her face was not fake. This woman and Jiangling Governor Dong Zhi probably had some sort of blood feud that was as deep as the ocean.
"Are you going to go or not?" The woman in white continued to shout at Lu Xun.
"General, this woman's background is unknown. You cannot trust her so easily!" Huo Jun continued to speak from the side.
"Go!" Lu Xun ignored Huo Jun's advice and looked at the woman in white.
"General!"
"You trust me that much?" The woman in white looked at Lu Xun doubtfully.
"It is not that I trust you, but I believe that you will not joke around with your life!" Lu Xun smiled and said to the woman in white. In fact, Lu Xun also had a lot of doubts about this woman's identity. Why did she want to kill Jiangling Prefecture Chief Dong Zhi? How did she know about Huarong Dao? These were all questions that Lu Xun wanted to know. However, Lu Xun did not have the time to think about it. Other than trusting this woman, there was no other way.
They were ordered to attack Jingzhou's South County. As long as they took South County, this expedition would not be in vain.
If they did not believe in this woman's words, then they could forget about attacking Jiangling. With Jingzhou's recovery speed, it would be more than enough to raise 100,000 soldiers in a year and a half. When the time came, they would have to fight a war of attrition with Jingzhou. This was not what the Yangzhou army wanted. What the Yangzhou army wanted now was to fight for their lives. Xiangyang was not a big deal, but Jiangling must be taken. If they took Jiangling, then half of Jingzhou's lives would be gone. With Jiangling's military resources, the Yangzhou army could expand even more.
However, with Huarong Dao, it was like a tiger blocking the road in front of the Yangzhou army. The woman in front of him was the only possibility, so Lu Xun could not give up.
"Zhong Miao, pass down the order. Give me two thousand elite soldiers and prepare a few days of dry food. We are ready to set off at any time!" Lu Xun said to Huo Jun.
"You want to lead the troops personally?" The woman in white looked at Lu Xun and asked.
"Of course!" Lu Xun smiled.
"General, you can't!" Huo Jun refused without thinking. "General, you are the commander-in-chief of the army. If the army leaves you, it will be like a group of dragons without a leader." Huo Jun dissuaded. "Let me go!"
"Zhong Miao, although I am the commander-in-chief of the army, you are the most familiar with the army!" Lu Xun said to Zhong Miao. Lu Xun said to Huo Jun beside him. Huo Jun was much older than Lu Xun. Lu Xun did not do this without reason. He would not be unaware of the danger ahead. Huarong Dao, the hundred-mile swamp, poisonous gas was constantly produced. If one was not careful, he would really be buried here forever. This time, the battle was of great importance. There must be a commander alone who knew the art of war. In the Yangzhou Navy, there were only two people who could command the troops alone. One was Huo Jun, and the other was himself.
Although Lu Xun was the commander-in-chief of the entire army, to be honest, the one who understood the whole Yangzhou Navy the most was Huo Jun. This was because the current Yangzhou Navy was mostly the original Jiangxia Navy, and the commander was Huo Jun.
Therefore, Huo Jun was more suitable than himself to stay here and command the army. Otherwise, if Huo Jun left, Lu Xun would lose a bridge to communicate with the Jiangxia Navy. After all, these people were newly surrendered. Without Huo Jun, Lu Xun was really afraid that the army would mutiny.
"But!"
"No buts!" Lu Xun shook his head at Huo Jun. "It's settled!"
Soon, two thousand soldiers and horses were gathered. These soldiers and horses were all the elite soldiers of the Yangzhou Navy. Lu Xun looked at these men and nodded with satisfaction.
"Miss, do you have any medicine prepared?" Lu Xun asked the woman in white. Under the guidance of the woman in white, they brought a lot of cowhide and some ropes.
"No, let's go!" The woman in white nodded and said to Lu Xun and the others.
"Okay, let's go!" Lu Xun waved his hand and shouted to the soldiers and horses. Soon, the army slowly entered Huarong Dao under the guidance of the woman in white.
"Zhong Miao, if I don't come back, you take the army and wait for the order from Lujiang!" Lu Xun said and followed the army into Huarong Dao.
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"Miss, do you know how to go on this road or not?" Lu Xun asked the woman in white with a sullen face. They had been in Huarong Dao for a few days. They had encountered swamps, poisonous gas, poisonous insects and so on. The army had suffered a lot. In these few days, almost a hundred people were killed or injured. Every day, there were ten or twenty comrades sleeping in this swamp.
But thinking that they were going to pass through this swamp, a little death and injury was nothing. But today, Lu Xun was angry because he found a yellow coarse cloth on the reeds in front of him. Looking at it, this cloth was not tied up when Lu Xun was resting in this place yesterday.
In other words, they walked for a day and more than ten brothers died, but in the end, they ran back to the original place.
"I, I don't know!" The woman in white was also anxious. This was Huarong Road, not other places. If you got lost in other places, you might be able to find your way out. However, this was the Hundred Mile Swamp. If you were not careful, you could be swallowed by this swamp. Getting lost was basically a dead end. Although she was holding a map in her hand, the map couldn't bring them out of this place. This map was drawn by several generations of their Wu family in Jiangling. Although the swamp of Huarong Path was terrifying, they still managed to find such a small path after spending several generations of painstaking effort.
"Let me see!" Lu Xun said to the white-clothed woman. The white-clothed woman still resisted because her biggest use to Lu Xun's Yangzhou army was that she had a map. Lu Xun still obeyed the white-clothed woman in order to be able to bring his subordinates out of Huarong Road. He was afraid that the white-clothed woman would lose the map or cause some trouble.
If the woman in white gave the map to Lu Xun, then she would have no use for Lu Xun. She might even be buried here. This map was her amulet.
"Miss, do you want to walk out of this swamp?" Lu Xun asked the woman in white.
"Yes! But I can't give you the map! "The woman in white was unusually firm.
"Hehe, can you bring us out if you don't give me the map?" Lu Xun also asked the woman in white with a sullen expression.
The woman in white shook her head. If they could rely on the map to bring them out, they would have left long ago. They wouldn't have circled around and come back now.
"Then give me your map! Let's look at it together! "Lu Xun reached out his hand and said to the woman in white.
The woman in white was still not willing.
"Miss, if I want to kill you, do you think you have the power to resist?" Lu Xun said to the woman in white. If Lu Xun wanted to kill the woman in white, then she wouldn't have any leeway to resist because Lu Xun had 2,000 troops. Even though he had lost a lot of troops in the past few days, he still had 1,700 to 1,800 troops.
One thousand seven hundred to eight hundred men couldn't even deal with a little girl.
"You don't dare to kill me. If you kill me, you really won't be able to walk out of this swamp." The woman in white also shook her head and said to Lu Xun. If the woman in white threw the map out or destroyed it, then everyone would really be buried with her.
"It's good that you know ~! We are in the same boat now. It's useless if anyone is missing. Miss, if you are missing us and we can't get out of this swamp, then who will help you take revenge? Who will help you kill Dong Zhi? Miss, if we are missing you, we won't be able to get out of this swamp. Therefore, our goal is the same. We all need to get out of this Huarong Road and go to Jiangling. We need to take down Jiangling. Miss, what you want is Dong Zhi's head. The earlier we get out of here, the earlier you can take revenge. "Lu Xun's words had already made the woman in white a little tempted.
Just when the woman in white was tempted, Lu Xun's eyes were sharp and his hands were fast. He quickly snatched the map from the woman in white.
"What are you doing? Give me back my map!" The woman in white realized that she had lost her map and wanted to snatch it back. However, she was careless and slipped into the swamp by the side. The swamp was like a ferocious beast that ate people without spitting out the bones. Soon, half of the woman in white disappeared into the swamp.
"Help, help!" The woman in white tried to struggle, but the more she struggled, the faster she sank into the swamp.
"Quick, save her!" Lu Xun shouted to his subordinates.
"General, we?" The thousand-man lieutenant on the side was a little hesitant because the only important thing for this woman to their Yangzhou army was the map. Now that the map was in their hands, why should they save this woman? After all, they couldn't distinguish between friend and foe. The less trouble, the better. Let this woman die in this swamp.
"I asked you to save her, save her. Why are you talking so much nonsense?" Lu Xun didn't care about looking at the map. A soldier on the side hurriedly stretched out his body and wanted to pull the woman in white, but everything seemed to be in vain.
"General, catch!" Soon, a rope was thrown down. The soldier hurriedly grabbed the rope and passed his belt over. "Quick, catch it!"
The woman in white seemed to have fallen into the water and caught the last straw. The soldier pulled the woman in white to his side with the strength of the belt. As long as the woman in white didn't move, with the strength of the rope, the two of them could be pulled up quickly by the soldiers above.
But it was obvious that the woman in white was frightened. Everyone was like this. Just now, death was in front of them, so close to them. In just a few breaths, half of them would be swallowed by the swamp. If Lu Xun didn't shout, the woman in white would have died.
Therefore, the white-clothed woman was still in a state of shock. As soon as she grabbed the soldier who had saved her, she struggled with all her might, wanting to grab the soldier and pull him up.
"Don't move, don't struggle!" Lu Xun shouted from above. After falling into the swamp, the more you struggled, the faster you sank. Once the mud of the swamp swept over your head, you were basically hopeless.
Lu Xun shouted over there, but the woman in white didn't seem to hear him. She was still struggling. The weight of two people was already very heavy. As they sank faster, the woman in white struggled even more and sank even faster.
"Quick, save her!"
"General, general!" The soldier who fell into the mud seemed to know that the weight of the two people couldn't be saved with the help of a rope. Therefore, the soldier directly gave up on the rope and tied it to the woman in white. "General, quickly pull her up!"
The dozens of soldiers behind quickly pulled the woman in white up. The weight of one person was much lighter than two people.
"There are more below. Quickly throw the rope!" Lu Xun shouted loudly. The rope was quickly thrown down again, but it was too late. The swamp of Huarong Dao was a prehistoric beast. It ate people without spitting out the bones. In the blink of an eye, the soldier who saved the woman was gone.
"Wuwuwuwu!" The woman in white was just rescued. Her whole body was shaking. She was simply scared.
Lu Xun stepped forward and gave her a slap without saying a word. "Pa!" The slap landed on the face of the woman in white.
"You, you, you!" The woman in white stared at Lu Xun with her eyes wide open.
"Are you satisfied now?" Lu Xun shouted at the woman in white, "In order to save you, he died, died! A life, why, why? "
"Take out the map!" Lu Xun angrily roared at the white-clothed woman. The white-clothed woman was a little scared because Lu Xun's eyes were starting to turn red. If he continued to provoke her, the white-clothed woman might not be able to survive.
The woman in white had no choice but to hand over the map.
Lu Xun looked at the map and compared it to the surrounding environment. He finally understood why he couldn't get out of here. The map was written in the first year of the Emperor. This map was finalized at that time. The texture was sixty years ago. Sixty years ago, the swamp was rich in water and soil. Sixty years later, some roads were completely covered by silt or weeds. How could one find a way to get out of here?
Now, the woman in white was able to bring them here. They were already lucky that they didn't go the wrong way and get wiped out.
"Tell me, who are you!" Lu Xun kept the map and asked the woman in white.
"You will know when we reach Jiangling!" The woman in white was still unwilling to reveal her identity.
"Reach Jiangling? Hehe, just by relying on this sixty year old map? " Lu Xun was angry. A sixty year old map. Lu Xun still believed this woman in white. This was a dead end. The entire Huarong Dao had changed. How could they get out?
"I, I!" The woman in white didn't know how to explain.
"General, let's kill this woman in white!" The captain of a thousand men said to the woman in white fiercely. The hundreds of people who died in the past few days were all his men. Now that he knew that this map was sixty years old, they might not be able to get out. He was even more embarrassed and angry. He wanted to kill this woman in white to vent his anger.
"Kill her? Killing her is too easy for him! "Lu Xun said to the woman in white.
"What do you want!" The woman in white, Wu Mi, panicked. Now that the map was gone, he was completely useless. He might really be killed.
"In order to save him, we have already lost a comrade! Wouldn't killing him be letting him off too easily? Even if it is for that brother, he has to live! He has to live in place of that brother! " Lu Xun said. "Tell me, who are you? Otherwise, even if I don't kill you, these brothers will not let you go."
"I, I am called Wu Mi. I am from the Jiangling Wu Family." Wu Mi revealed her identity.
"Jiangling Wu Family?" Lu Xun had an image. Lu Xun knew about this Wu Family because the Lu Family and the Wu Family had done business before. The two families were old friends. In his grandfather's generation, it was a marriage alliance. If the Lu Family had not been ruined, the two families would still be in contact. Jiangling Ship King.
"Who is your father?" Lu Xun asked Wu Mi.
"My father is Wu Fan!" Wu Mi said to Lu Xun.
"Wu Fan? The head of the Wu Family? "Lu Xun asked. Wu Mi nodded." You are Uncle Wu's daughter? "Lu Xun asked again.
"Uncle Wu?" Wu Mi did not understand. This was the commander of the Yangzhou Navy. He was a general of Yangzhou. His surname was Lu, and his name was Xun. How could he be related to the Wu Family?
"If you are really the daughter of the Jiangling Ship King, then according to seniority, you should call me cousin!" Lu Xun said with a bitter smile. Lu Xun smiled bitterly and said to Wu Mi. Lujiang's Lu Family and Jiangling's Wu Family were old friends. Not only did they have business dealings, but they also had marriage dealings. Wu Fan once hugged Lu Xun. That was many years ago. After the Lu Family was destroyed by Sun Ce of Jiangdong, Lu Xun also wanted to go to Jiangling to seek revenge from the Wu Family. However, after seeing the state of the Jing Province Navy, he gave up the idea. He did not expect to see his cousin in Huarong Dao.
"Why are you here? Why did you kill Jiangling Governor Dong Zhi? Could it be you? " Lu Xun did not understand. The Jiangling Wu Family was a big noble family in Jiangling. Moreover, it was said that they had joined the Jingzhou Huang Family. They were the left and right arms of the Huang Family. Huang Zu was also Liu Biao's direct descendant. Could it be that this cousin of his really came here to scheme against the Yangzhou Navy? However, if that was the case, then Uncle Wu was too willing to spend his capital.
"My father is dead!" Wu Mi lowered her head and said to Lu Xun.
"Uncle Wu is dead?" Lu Xun's first reaction was to not believe it. The Wu Family was so powerful in Jiangling. Who could kill Wu Fan? Even if there were people who wanted to deal with the Wu Family, they would have to give face to the Huang Family.
"The person who killed my father is Jiangling Governor Dong Zhi!" Wu Mi said viciously. She told Lu Xun about how her family of over a hundred had been massacred by Jiangling Governor Dong Zhi and Jing Province's Second Young Master Liu Pan. Her beautiful face was filled with hatred.
"Liu Biao's second son, Liu Pan?" Lu Xun frowned. Lu Xun knew who Liu Pan was, but why did Liu Pan want to exterminate the Wu Family? This didn't make sense. The Wu Family was one of the most powerful families in Jiangling. In Shiyang City, Lu Xun had people bury Shiyang County's Magistrate Wu Lin. Other than wanting to make Jing Province suspicious of each other, it was also to give face to the Wu Family. However, he didn't expect that the Wu Family would be exterminated by Liu Pan. Could it be that Jing Province had no face?
"Cousin, I beg you, you must avenge my Wu Family!" After Wu Mi found out that Lu Xun was her cousin, she immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Lu Xun.
"Quickly get up, quickly get up!" Lu Xun quickly helped Wu Mi up. Revenge? Killing Dong Zhi and Liu Pan wasn't a problem, but they had to get out of here first. Lu Xun looked at the surrounding vines and swamps and the 60-year-old map in his hand. It would be good if they could get out of here.
After knowing Wu Mi's identity, Lu Xun's vigilance towards Wu Mi was lowered.
"Pass down the order. Tell everyone that there is still a short distance ahead before we can get out! Let everyone hold on for a while. " In the past few days of traveling in Huarong Road, in addition to being on tenterhooks for fear of accidentally dying here, there was also deep exhaustion. Many soldiers were about to collapse. They would rather fight with the enemy on the battlefield than to not be able to find the direction and path in such a swamp.
"Yes!" The thousand-man general quickly went to pass down the order.
"Cousin, have you found the way?" Wu Mi asked Lu Xun.
"How can I find the way!" Lu Xun smiled bitterly and shook his head. If he had found the way, Lu Xun wouldn't be like this. The reason why he said this was to raise the morale. Once the morale collapsed, it would be useless even if they got out.
"Let's take one step at a time!" Lu Xun stood up and followed the route on the map. He followed the map and walked down the swamp.
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